It would appear that some folks have already started accepting Windows 10. . .maybe this is going to be a good thing. . .or not.

lehnerus2000 said:

Brink said:

Source: Net Applications

That link doesn't take me to Net Applications.

In any case, the numbers seem dodgy to me.

Why?

The only dodgy number was x-p was up 5% in 30 days

Windows 7 remains the top used operating system for PCs, with a 56.26% share in December, up from 53.71% in November. Windows XP, which Microsoft no longer supports, had an 18.26% share in December, higher than the 13.57% it had in November.

These numbers do not pass any reasonability test. If we assume that the total market inventory is at least 1 Billion (and that is probably a low number) systems, then 1% represents 10 Million.

Now from where should have come that nearly 5% increase for XO - and that in 1 month !!!. That would be 50 Million new XP systems that suddenly came out of the closet. And even the over 3% more for W7 (over 30 million +) are questionable.

Markets do not change that fast in only 1 month. And in PCs most of the growth comes from new sales. Who is selling PCs with XP ??

I think those people should review their methodology before they publish such rubbish. The only way those number could make some sense is if the market shrunk dramatically. But there is no indication of that either. New sales may have shrunk but that has only a long term impact on the inventory.

Holidays are magical

That is possible. Businesses might give there employees older computers. Relative might give there grandkids an older computer and so on. I do actually see windows 7 increase plausible. Places getting rid of their windows 7 at reduced prices. I even considered getting a vista system at one time.

T.V. has been showing allot of PC Matic commercials saying x-per's will be safe if they use their product